rasus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of rādō.

Participle

rāsus (feminine rāsa, neuter rāsum); first/second-declension participle

1. scraped, shaved

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rāsus	rāsa	rāsum		rāsī	rāsae	rāsa
genitive	rāsī	rāsae	rāsī		rāsōrum	rāsārum	rāsōrum
dative	rāsō	rāsae	rāsō		rāsīs
accusative	rāsum	rāsam	rāsum		rāsōs	rāsās	rāsa
ablative	rāsō	rāsā	rāsō		rāsīs
vocative	rāse	rāsa	rāsum		rāsī	rāsae	rāsa

Derived terms

• rāsōrium
• rāsūra

Descendants

• Aromanian: aras
• Catalan: ras
• Friulian: râs
• Galician: raso
• Italian: raso
• Old French: res
  • French: ras, rez
  • → Portuguese: rés
• Portuguese: raso
• Romanian: ras
• Sicilian: rasu
• Spanish: raso
• Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *rāsāre
  • *rāsicāre

Etymology 2

From rādō (“scrape”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

rāsus m (genitive rāsūs); fourth declension

1. an act of scraping, rubbing

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rāsus	rāsūs
genitive	rāsūs	rāsuum
dative	rāsuī	rāsibus
accusative	rāsum	rāsūs
ablative	rāsū	rāsibus
vocative	rāsus	rāsūs

Descendants

• → French: rasibus (learned)

References

• “rasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rasus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.